Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival →

May 9-12, 2012

Free Festival!

I’m really looking forward to the following events:

  • Friday, May 11 (7-9 PM) - Spoken Word Concert featuring Nereo Eugenio and Kent Suss
  • Saturday, May 12, 2012 (7-8:30 PM) Saturday Night Storytelling Concert featuring storytellers from Ukraine, India, California, New Jersey, and Winnipeg
In fact, I’m so excited to hear Nereo again, that I bumped my birthday party one hour later!

The Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival features regional, national, and international tellers, and encompasses a School Program, Peace-building Workshops, and Public Events.

The goals of the Festival are:

  • To nurture the art of storytelling in Winnipeg;
  • To promote youth voice as a critical skill for global citizenship; and
  • To promote the use of story-based approaches for peacemaking
05.05.12
dustoffthatcamera: The river rinks are almost ready at the Forks. The River Trail is officially open! The Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail presents free programming and fun activities on the weekends for the whole family! Skate, walk, run or sled along the Guinness World Record-holding longest naturally frozen skating trail in the world and enjoy the picturesque sights of Winnipeg as you’ve never seen them before, from the frozen Assiniboine River. Beginning at the heart of the city, The Forks, the Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail is a winter family tradition. Take the opportunity to also participate in a variety of different outdoor activities: walking, curling, hockey, historic interpretation, cycling, broomball and much more. Weekend programming is free of charge! Visit www.rivertrail.ca for more information. Plus all the beautiful new warming huts! Winter Adventure Programming FREE programming on Sundays | January 22 – March 4 (weather permitting) Horse-Drawn Wagon Rides sponsored by Scotiabank - 1:30pm – 4:30pmHop on and enjoy a ride around The Forks site. Investors Group Teepee Story Telling and Art Program - 1:30pm – 3:30pmJoin Aboriginal elders inside two traditional teepees and learn the history of teepees while creating your own art project. PS - Fun tumblr meet-up?

dustoffthatcamera:

The river rinks are almost ready at the Forks.

The River Trail is officially open!

The Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail presents free programming and fun activities on the weekends for the whole family!

Skate, walk, run or sled along the Guinness World Record-holding longest naturally frozen skating trail in the world and enjoy the picturesque sights of Winnipeg as you’ve never seen them before, from the frozen Assiniboine River.

Beginning at the heart of the city, The Forks, the Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail is a winter family tradition.

Take the opportunity to also participate in a variety of different outdoor activities: walking, curling, hockey, historic interpretation, cycling, broomball and much more. Weekend programming is free of charge!

Visit www.rivertrail.ca for more information.

Plus all the beautiful new warming huts!

Winter Adventure Programming

FREE programming on Sundays | January 22 – March 4

(weather permitting)

Horse-Drawn Wagon Rides sponsored by Scotiabank - 1:30pm – 4:30pm
Hop on and enjoy a ride around The Forks site.

Investors Group Teepee Story Telling and Art Program - 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Join Aboriginal elders inside two traditional teepees and learn the history of teepees while creating your own art project.

PS - Fun tumblr meet-up?

High Quality  17 ♥ 01.24.12
Stone Soup Storytellers Second Friday of every month @ 7:30 PM - Aqua Books Free Admission People in all times and places have told stories. Stone Soup storytelling happens in the round, with the participants passing the talking stick around. If you want to tell a story, keep the stick. If you just want to listen, pass it along. Stone Soup has some very experienced tellers, but amateurs and listeners are always welcome. The long-running Winnipeg storytellers’ group has been around since the early ‘80’s. Since 2005, they have been meeting September through May at Aqua Books, now normally on the second Friday of the month. All sessions start at 7:30 pm, and are open to all (including children, although it’s not really for the very young and squirmy.) Admission is free.

Stone Soup Storytellers

Second Friday of every month @ 7:30 PM - Aqua Books

Free Admission

People in all times and places have told stories. Stone Soup storytelling happens in the round, with the participants passing the talking stick around. If you want to tell a story, keep the stick. If you just want to listen, pass it along. Stone Soup has some very experienced tellers, but amateurs and listeners are always welcome.

The long-running Winnipeg storytellers’ group has been around since the early ‘80’s. Since 2005, they have been meeting September through May at Aqua Books, now normally on the second Friday of the month. All sessions start at 7:30 pm, and are open to all (including children, although it’s not really for the very young and squirmy.) Admission is free.

2 ♥ 01.07.11

Stories in Times of Chaos and Uncertainty

October 15, 2010 from 12-1 M @ Mauro Centre Boardroom (252 St. Paul’s College), University of Manitoba

Ignatius Mabasa is an award-winning novelist, children’s writer and dub poet from Harare, Zimbabwe. Inspired by his grandmother, he is also a storyteller who began telling stories before he could write and has since shared them with audiences from Harare to San Francisco. An accomplished mentor for budding writers and storytellers, a champion of the Shona language and a lay preacher at his local church, Ignatius is the Deputy Director of the British Council in Zimbabwe.

10.12.10

Fringe Review: Eccentrically We Love →

The Fugitives

The Fugitives (Vancouver, BC)

Venue #1 (MTC Mainstage; entrance on Rorie Street at John Hirsch Place)

Tickets: $10

Under 5 not admitted.

  • July 17 @ 5:45 PM
  • July 18 @ 12:15 PM
  • July 20 @ 7 PM
  • July 21 @ 10:30 PM
  • July 22 @ 2 PM
  • July 23 @ 7:45 PM

I was blown away. Seriously amazing. Go.

And that’s after watching dozens of new-to-me acts at Folk Fest last week.

The Fugitives are the combined talents of Vancouver artists Adrian Glynn, Barbara Adler, Brendan McLeod, and Steve Charles. A group of multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, poets and novelists, each [has] their own burgeoning solo career […], but their primary focus lies in banding together to integrate their sensibilities into a dynamic mix of modern folk.

Clever, down-to-earth, and heartwarming, this band of artists instantly connected to its audience at their late night first show. Adrian (balalaika), Barbara (accordion), Brendan (acoustic guitar), and Steve (banjo) [all of whom also sang] are joined by James on upright bass on this run at the Fringe (and perhaps regularly outside of Fringe as well?), all wildly talented, comfortable and charming in their occasional awkwardness, and amazing to listen to together, in duos and trios, and solo.

This first show was an offering from their most recent CD, Eccentrically We Love, also the title song of the album and, obviously, the name of their Fringe show. The songs and show were a conscious revelling in the “itchiness” of close relationships, a discussion of how the awkwardness of love is good, and an endearing, fresh optimism about what love is, how it works, and what we should do and think. The rest of the shows might be the same or similar, but they did (jokingly?) promise to bring out some Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Stories, old and new; thoughtful, rhythmic poetry; heart-swelling music, various and brilliant; and the feel of an intimate, basement concert. Love.

Bring money to buy a CD or t-shirt. They have a friendly competition to see which instrument (aka band member) is most popular, proven by t-shirt sales for the four teams: Team Accordion, Team the Triangle Thing (balalaika), Team Single White Male with a Guitar, and Team Banjo. No Team Upright Bass, I guess because James is not a card-carrying member of The Fugitives.

07.16.10